Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights Unpacked: This Week’s Best Podcasts | TV and radio

Book club

The latest edition of Goalhanger hears historian Dominic Sandbrook in English teacher mode, dissecting classic novels with producer Tabitha Syrett. Fortunately, it doesn’t feel like homework: the first episode, on Wuthering Heights, explores Emily Brontë’s dark themes, the confusingly named names of her heroes, and the author herself—from her tragically small coffin to the graveyard waters that may have led to her premature death. Hannah J. Davis
Widely available, weekly episodes

Social mites

Harriet Dyer, Amy Mason, and Lindsey Santoro’s series is ostensibly about how to get out of the house when your mental health, kids, or phone addiction get in the way. It’s both wildly ridiculous and instantly endearing, and serves as an excuse for the three comics to share sarcastic anecdotes about rude hecklers and curious Google search results. HJD
Widely available, weekly episodes

Josh Smith’s amazing chat program

This thoughtful chat software ditches the small talk and gets straight into it. From Jason Isaacs talking about a hypnotherapy session as a search for a role – only to realize that his drug use was deliberate self-harm – to actress Mia McKenna Bruce being taught how to fend for herself by Helena Bonham Carter, it’s a fascinating listen. Alexey Duggins
Widely available, weekly episodes

Messy lunch

An egregious example of a video program that is a podcast in name only. The film begins confusingly with context-free conversations between voices that are not introduced – one of them is named Sam, and they get their cows from Andy – and there are confusing references to beans. After a few tantalizing minutes, the conversation Chef Gizzi Erskine promised with Graham Coxon and Rose-Eleanor Dougal comes true. advertisement
Widely available, weekly episodes

Realm of Secrets: Darkest Web

Based on seven years of journalist Sam Pirante’s work and released alongside Storyville which will be shown on BBC Four on Tuesday, this new World Service series is a skillful and horrific look at child sexual abuse. While it follows people criminally pursuing perpetrators, there is also room for the voices of survivors. HJD
Widely available, weekly episodes